Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-04-18


Levi Empi. of Kansas. a prominent
ODD Fellow, died Sunday.
II. P. Hamill was passenger on yes
teryny's west bound train for the Bay.
D. q. Hooten and wife arrived from
Bullion by private conveyance this after
noon.
Two shocks Of earthquake occurred at
BurliRgtoni Vermont. Sunday after
noon. No damage.
In serman at Cleveland, Ohio, Sun
day, Joseph Su.ith, son of the founder
OF tho Mormon religion, denounced
polyg"my.
Roscoe Conkling is said to enjoy
above all thirgs chat about the poll
tics of The past. He cares nothing, it is
SAID, for the politics OF the future.
Ben Brown, colure&. was hanged Mt
Nashville, Tenn, Friday, for the muir
der of an old colored farmer named
Frank Arnold, in November, 1885.
George VIM. the unsophisticnted
IDOL of the fair young damsels of Star
Valley. arrived by this mornings train
and will sojourn with III for few days.
Daniel Jewett, who sEot and killed
his wife in December. 1884, because she
refused to live with him, was hanged in
The jailyar& ut st. Louis at O'Clock
Friday morning.
Runner hath it that the town of Wells
will shortly be the Eecepnnt of or md
treat, occasioned by the wedding of one
OF Elko county b nice young men to a
fair one of that village.
MIR. c, w. Grover went up to the
Wells last evening. aud upon returning
this morning. pursued his journey went
an far AS Carlin, from which puce lie
will return this evening.
Lou Bradley. the irlepressibIe masher
Of the Star Valley prniries, came in Oh
the bumpers last evening, and his snlil-
tI countenance has nlternatively
grnced the sanctum snnctorum of this
office too frequently for business.
A dispatch from Panama dated April
18th says: A fire took place yesterday
ut Impcrat"r. one Of the stations on the
c"mal. 1t destroyed machine shop be-
longing to II contracting firm. The loss
IN estimated at $500, 900. Two lives
were lost.
The American Oper. Company, un-
der tho infringement Of Chas. 4. Locke :,
which is to appear ut the Grand Oper n
House San Fraucisco, this evening, and
continue for n season of three weeks,
passed through here yesterday en- route
for the Bay City.
The Wholesale drug store OF Charles
Baumbach 4 Cowes, Milwaukee, was
burned Friday. Loss. SITS, 900; insur-
ance, 100000. The fire was caused by
the explosion of "A varpish barrel. Ru-
dolph Seahle, a.clerk, WAS fatally in.
lured by the explosion.
DR.. j. J. Leek the enlist. will arrive
III Elko. on the 2ud Of May and remain
Two weeks. De. Leek will establish
his office ut the Com Hotel, and will be
pleosed to. have I'LL his friends aud nc
qnaintaDees give him call. See his
ad. in another column.
Henry Inner, the oldest locomotive
engineer in the United States, died in
whistler, Ala, ON the 18th. He ran
The first engine over the Charleston and
h'mourg Rlilroad, the third railroad
quilt III this country. The drivers of
the engine were Of hard wood.
steamer mt Baltimore, which arrived
Yesterday from the kdppahanuock river,
virginia, reports the destruction of tue
village of Farnha,n by fire last Monday.
lhe population WAS 800. The Protest.
ant Episcopal Church. built In the col.
0nist days, aud one of the oldest houses
Of worship in the State, was burned to
the ground.
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